All 25 Uses
usurp
in
A Game of Thrones
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- Viserys had been a boy of eight when they fled King's Landing to escape the advancing armies of the Usurper, but Daenerys had been only a quickening in their mother's womb.†
p. 30.4usurper = one who seizes or takes control without authority
- Her brother Rhaegar battling the Usurper in the bloody waters of the Trident and dying for the woman he loved.†
p. 30.5 *
- The sack of King's Landing by the ones Viserys called the Usurper's dogs, the lords Lannister and Stark.†
p. 30.6
- They had run again, just before the Usurper's brother set sail with his new-built fleet.†
p. 30.9
- The garrison had been prepared to sell them to the Usurper, but one night Ser Willem Darry and four loyal men had broken into the nursery and stolen them both, along with her wet nurse, and set sail under cover of darkness for the safety of the Braavosian coast.†
p. 31.1
- The Usurper's hired knives were close behind them, he insisted, though Dany had never seen one.†
p. 31.6
- At first the magisters and archons and merchant princes were pleased to welcome the last Targaryens to their homes and tables, but as the years passed and the Usurper continued to sit upon the Iron Throne, doors closed and their lives grew meaner.†
p. 31.7
- Tyrell, Redwyne, Darry, Greyjoy, they have no more love for the Usurper than I do.†
p. 34.8
- "I shall kill the Usurper myself," he promised, who had never killed anyone, "as he killed my brother Rhaegar.†
p. 35.1
- No doubt the Usurper would pay well for your head.†
p. 35.9
- "The Usurper wanted his head," Illyrio told them.†
p. 36.9
- The Usurper sits on my father's throne.†
p. 100.4
- There are still those in the Seven Kingdoms who call me Usurper.†
p. 113.7
- It went against everything that Viserys had ever told her to think that the people could care so little whether a true king or a usurper reigned over them.†
p. 233.4
- The Usurper would agree.†
p. 389.3
- In the songs, the white knights of the Kingsguard were ever noble, valiant, and true, and yet King Aerys had been murdered by one of them, the handsome boy they now called the Kingslayer, and a second, Ser Barristan the Bold, had gone over to the Usurper.†
p. 391.9
- "Woe to the Usurper if we had been," said Ser Oswell.†
p. 425.1
- Caravan guards were seldom troubled much by thoughts of honor, and the Usurper in King's Landing would pay well for her brother's head.†
p. 495.7
- A name to make the Usurper's blood run cold.†
p. 496.9
- Was it the Usurper?†
p. 592.3
- The Usurper owes Drogo a lordship.†
p. 592.4
- The Usurper has woken the dragon now, she told herself ...and her eyes went to the dragon's eggs resting in their nest of dark velvet.†
p. 592.6
- Offer to denounce Stannis and Renly as faithless usurpers.†
p. 635.8
- It would not do to make him feel as if his mother were usurping his place.†
p. 642.5usurping = seizing or taking control without authority
- Dany remembered the story Viscrys had told her, of what the Usurper's dogs had done to Rhaegar's children.†
p. 707.7usurper = one who seizes or takes control without authority
Definitions:
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(1)
(usurp) seize or take control without authority
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)